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New Delhi: On 20 September the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC) in New Delhi. The ministry said that the facilities provided at the center will be on a par with the best in the world in size and quality, offering setting for international and national events, meetings, conferences, exhibitions and trade shows the ministry said in a statement He further added that it will rank among the top 10 in the world and the biggest indoor exhibition space in India," the project is expected to generate over 5 lakh employment opportunities. The project is planned for an area of 221.37 acre in Sector 25, Dwarka here, with an estimated cost of Rs 25,703 crore. The IICC will be an integrated complex which will provide various facilities like exhibition halls, convention center, and open exhibition spaces, mixed use commercial spaces like star hotels (5, 4 and 3 star), retail services and high-end offices. The ...

New Delhi: Now it has become most easy for commuters on Green Line as the travel time between Bahadurgarh and western part of the cities easy from 24 June. The Commission of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) has permitted for starting a new extending line from Mundka to Bahadurgarh corridor. It will now take only 50 min to commuters to travel from Bahadurgarh to Mundka, it’s an extension of Green Line(Inderlok/Kirti Nagar-Mundka). The line was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi , he was not physically present there to flag off the operation but was available on video conference. "I congratulate the people of Haryana and Delhi on the commencement of this new section of the Delhi Metro. It is gladdening to see Bahadurgarh connected with the Delhi metro. This is the third place in Haryana, after Gurugram and Faridabad to be connected like this" twitted by Narendra Modi. It will facilitate commuters employed in industrial units along the corridor. Bahadurgarh has a vast populat...

Ahmedabad: The proposed Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Railway Project is gaining momentum. As per the recent reports, passenger terminals for bullet train in Vadodara and Ahmedabad stations will be alongside present railway tracks of Indian railways. The other bullet train stations in Gujarat will be made parallel to either national or state highways. As per the proposal, four stations will be in Maharashtra and eight stations will be in Gujarat. The project is scheduled to be made on the 508-km high speed corridor between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. In Gujarat the stations will be made at Vapi, Bilimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Ahmedabad and Sabarmati. While in Maharashtra, the station will be constructed at Boisar, Thane, Virar and BKC. PM Modi and Japanese PM Abe laid stone on first Bullet Train Project in India As per sources from National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) , six stations in Gujarat will be constructed in villages which are away from existing railways s...

Vijayawada: Even when Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu , in his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month, called for more quickly completing the Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam metro rail projects, the Union budget did not mention the projects, to great disappointment. of the state government. With this, Amaravati Metro Rail Corporation (AMRC) is contemplating opting for Public Private Partnership (PPP), to execute the Vijayawada subway project. “Given that there has been no guarantee regarding the funding of the projects, we will examine whether we can move forward with the PPP model for the Vijayawada metro ,” said NPIE MD NP Ramakrishna Reddy. The PPP model is being used for the implementation of the Visakhapatnam metro. The association with private players will help a faster execution of the project, since the officials do not need to wait for the funds of the government of the Union. While the Union government had provisionally allocated Rs 100 crore in the...

New Delhi: Starting in March 2018, many new lines of the Delhi metro network will begin to operate. With the completion of the Phase III expansion of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the metro rail system of the Indian capital would become the fourth largest in the world with more than 350 km of corridors. Its current network covers 231 km after the recent opening of the Botanical Garden-Kalkaji Mandir section of the Magenta Line. (Source: TOI)   Anuj Dayal, executive director (corporate communications) of DMRC, said that the Delhi Metro has 173 operating stations at this time, making it the ninth largest metro system in the world. “After the completion of Phase III, we will have a network of over 375 km, including the Noida-Greater Noida corridor, and it would be the largest after Shanghai, Beijing and London,” Dayal said. The Noida-Greater Noida corridor would be part of the Delhi metro network with an exchange at the next Noida Sector 52 station. Although built by DM...

Pune: The Pune Metro service could begin operating in parts of Corridor One within a year, officials from Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MAHA-Metro) said on Wednesday. Officials cited the example of the Metro service in Nagpur, where they managed to carry out a test within 27 months of starting work on the project. “… Pune Metro will be marked in the next year, or in a little over a year,” said Brijesh Dixit, general director of MAHA-Metro. Last week, Dixit had said that work at Pune Metro was progressing at a faster pace than work at Nagpur Metro. Reiterating the statement, Dixit said that the elevated part of Corridor 1 – a distance of approximately 6 km from Pimpri to Dapodi- faced few obstacles such as land acquisition, so MAHA-Metro could complete the work faster. “For the same distance in Nagpur, we could start the test in 27 months … the real operations are probably going to start soon. Since the work in Pune Metro is taking plac...